Hub-clamp and wrench combined



(No Model.)

J. SULLIVAN. HUB CLAMP AND WRENCH COMBINED.

No. 430,814. Patented June 24, 1890.

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JOHN SULLIVAN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

HUB-CLAMP AND WRENCH COMBINED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,814, dated June 24,1890.

Application filed November 19, 1889.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN SULLIVAN, of Grand Rapids, in the county ofKent and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Hub-Clampand rench Combined, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to an improved means for the simultaneous removalof a spindlenut and the wheel of a vehicle, and consists in theproduction of a simple, compact, and convenient implement by the use ofwhich the hub of a vehicle-wheel may be firmly gripped and the wheel,along with the spindlenut, be expeditiously and readily removed.

To these ends my invention consists in the construction and combinationof parts, as hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Referenceis to be made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a wheel-hub mounted on anaxle-spindle, with the improved wheel and nut remover in positionthereon. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in perspective of the improvedimplement. Fig. 3 is aside view of the wrench proper removed from thehub-gripping device, and Fig. 4 is a side view of a detached portion ofthe implement.

A represents a lever-wrench, the handle portion a of which is made ofsufficient length for its use. At A the handle is enlarged, producing ahead-piece, which is notched on its edge at h c d to provide openrecesses which can be utilized as wrenches for engagement of bolt'headsor nuts. These open jaw wrenches, being of different dimensions, affordmeans for the adjustment of the differentsized nuts and bolts used inthe construction of a wheeled vehicle, an open-jaw'wrcneh being alsoprovided at d on the end of the handle.

At a central point in the head A of the wrench A a square orifice isformed, into which the shank e of the socket-piece B is inserted, theshank fitting therein neatly, and, extending outside of the wrench-head,is adjustably secured in the aperture by a spring-clip c, which is bentfrom a piece of Serial No. 330,876. (No model.)

elastic wire, and engages the parallel grooves c that are formed in theshank-body near its free end, thespring resting in a groove a formed inthe face of the head A.

The socket-piece B is designed to receive a spindle-nut fin its squareor hexagonal recessed body, as shown in Fig. 1, and as it is maderemovable from the wrench A there may be a set of different-sizedsocket-pieces provided for the removal of various-sized spindle-nuts ondifferent vehicles, and a set screw it is preferably inserted in theside wall of the sockets B, (see Fig. 4,) so as to afford means forengaging nuts which will not fit the sockets.

It is of advantage to remove the wheel of a vehicle and the nut of thespindle at one operation and hold the parts intact, so that the handlingof the nut, which is smeared with tar or grease, may be avoided when thewheel and nut are replaced upon the spindle. To effect this desideratuma clamping device is provided, which is combined with the wrench A andsocket-piece B, as will be explained. The yoke-bar g is proportioned tothe width between the notches Z) (Z in the wrench-head A, so that theintegral limb h and hinged limb 72 secured to its ends will lie in saidnotches, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. These limbs h h are suitably curvedand extend between the spokes of a wheel, to engage the hub-band ion theinner end of the hub It with the hooks 72, formed on the terminal endsof'the limbs h 7L, thus retaining the limbsin contact therewith. Aset-screw boltm is inserted in acentral tapped hole produced in theyoke-plate g, which screw-bolt engages a seat or depression formed inthe end of the shank e, and by its longitudinal adjustment secures allparts of the device upon a wheel and its spil'idle-nut, so that arevolution of the handle-piece a of the wrench A will remove the nut andwheel together and retain the nut properly aligned to be restored toplace on the spindle when this is desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a wrench having acentral aperture in its head and with opposite notches in the edge ofthe same, of a socket-piece secured in the aperture of the head, ayoke-bar provided with a rigid and pivoted limb, each having ahook-shaped end and resting in the notches of the Wrenchhead, and aset-screw passing through the yoke-piece and bearing against thesocketpieee, substantially as described.

} 2. The combination, with the Wrench A, provided with the head A,having a central aperture and provided with the notches Z) cl, of thesoeketpiece B, provided with the shank e, detaohablyseeuredin the aperture of the said head, the yoke bar or piece g, provided with a rigid limbh and a pivoted limb h, each having a hook-shaped end and resting" inthe notches of the Wrench-head, and the set-screw I 5 on, passingthrough the yoke-piece and bearing against the shank of thesocket-piece, substantially as herein shown and described. JOHNSULLIVAN. Witnesses:

CYRUS E. PERKINS, GRACE G. CHAPMAN.

